CYBERSPACE AND OUTER space are merging to become the primary battlefield for global power in the 21st century. Both space and cyberspace systems are critical in enabling modern warfare—for strike precision, navigation, communication, information gathering—and it therefore makes sense to speak of a new, combined space-cyberspace military high-ground. From the moment Sputnik was launched in […]

http://discoverscifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/scifi1.png00Matthew Matherhttp://discoverscifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/scifi1.pngMatthew Mather2017-06-07 19:43:412017-06-08 15:38:29How Space and Cyberspace are Merging in the 21st Century Battlefield

I’m a huge fan of Science Fiction, particularly post-apocalyptic fiction, and think I’ve read the best the genre has to offer. That said, I always bypassed one book on assumptions that were to be proved wrong, and I guess others have made the same mistake. I knew about The Day of the Triffids by John […]

http://discoverscifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/scifi1.png00Darren Wearmouthhttp://discoverscifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/scifi1.pngDarren Wearmouth2016-07-02 03:18:142016-07-02 03:51:13Review: The Day of the Triffids

Do science fiction literature and films do more than just influence technology? This seems a simple enough premise and most of us steeped in the genre would answer with an emphatic, “Yes! Of course it does.” Deeper reflection on the subject makes me not quite as sure as I was when I, too, answered in […]

I first met Sammy Davis, Junior, when I was nine. At the edge of the kitchen counter, he waited, a gray house lizard—what we in the Philippines called butiki. No bigger than my father’s index finger, half of him was a thin, twitching tail that tapered to a point. Sammy Davis was a […]

Hyperspace, warp drive, folding space…over the years, authors have come up with lots of ways to travel faster than light, a virtual necessity if we are to portray any plausible kind of interstellar civilization. Yes, you can build a good story even with years of transit time between even close systems. Generation ships and crews […]